It's official: Jason Kidd has forced his way out of Brooklyn after one season as coach, and essentially traded himself to the Milwaukee Bucks.

After one season, the franchise that traded him as a player has now dumped him as a coach, too, for two second-round draft picks -- or, according to the current exchange rates in the NBA, for the equivalent of two weekly Metro cards and a cracked Deren Williams bobblehead.

So, in a way, Kidd got control over the Nets' basketball operations -- for one transaction, anyway. And the media fallout is not pretty.

"He can't help himself. It's who he is. It never works out well for him. Go look at his career ... as a player. There was always some acrimony or some behavior on his part that led to someone getting rid of him.

"He had a great situation there [in Brooklyn]. He was well-respected by ownership and he couldn't help himself. He had to go pull a power play and demand control of basketball operations.

"He'll come in as a coach [in Milwaukee] and he'll end up running the organization, sooner than later. And then you know what'll happen? That'll blow up and he'll be on his way somewhere else.

"It's disgraceful to interview for a job when there's somebody sitting in the job. It's a violation of the coaches' code and it speaks a lot for Kidd."

"Off the floor, Kidd has always believed in the divide-and-conquer approach. By trying and failing to supplant his boss, GM Billy King, as overlord of personnel, the rookie head coach left his team in Brooklyn exactly as he first found it in New Jersey: Same Old Nets.

It didn't matter that owner Mikhail Prokhorov had invested nearly $200 million in Kidd's first roster.

"Nothing was ever good enough for Jason," said one league source close to the situation. "He always had to be appeased on personnel, and he would play Monday morning quarterback if it didn't work out. It was like a kid constantly asking for new toys to stay happy. ... If he doesn't get what he wants he sits in the corner and sucks his thumb and pouts until he gets it, and he doesn't care about the consequences."

What, in contrast, has Jason Kidd — having schemed for a successful back door play to Milwaukee from Brooklyn, working from the Riley playbook — left the Russian-owned franchise with, besides a lesson on the price paid for what was, in many ways, a cheap publicity stunt? ...

Much has been made of the Nets’ strong second half, in which they won 34 of their last 51 regular-season games. Upon closer inspection, the overall body of work was less predictive of Kidd as a top-quality coach.

Beyond the silliness of his intentional soda spill to procure a late-game timeout, N.B.A. insiders lamented his calls down the stretch of close games. With upgraded veteran leadership, Kidd’s team won fewer games than the Avery Johnson/P. J. Carlesimo-coached Nets of 2012-13. It was sixth in an Eastern Conference that was pitifully weak compared to the West. ...

Sudden divorces are not uncommon in sports, and Kidd’s ungracious maneuver is far from his worst personal transgression. The story is more an indictment of how Prokhorov and King have done business in trying to make the Nets a competitive force in New York.

Memo to them: Your team is not in New Jersey anymore and doesn’t need cheap stunts for attention. There are a good number of better coaches — and people — than Jason Kidd currently unemployed. Do your homework. Go hire one. Don’t look back.